Word: midair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...
...morning later he was again in Washington nonchalantly catching the balls of politics that for five days he had left in midair...
...piece by Arthur Brisbane was mostly questions left hanging midair. Paul Mallon took the reader behind some Washington scenes, with few surprises, and another page summarized the week in Washington with no surprises at all. "These Times" was another review, of events all over the nation and all run in together...
...into trouble. When Minnie is in danger he rescues her. Toward her he smiles a vast lopsided smile that wavers now and then with embarrassment, returns soon to the simpleton grin. He turns everything to use. He wrestles off the edge of a cliff, wrestles on in midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle...
...Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...